Subtitle on cover: Self-sacrifice, self-betrayal, dependency, devaluation, work and success, mothering, aggression, depression, mother blaming, anger

Originally published: Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, c1988, with the subtitle Devaluation, anger, aggression, depression, self-sacrifice, mothering, mother blaming, self-betrayal, sex-role stereotypes, dependency, work and success inhibitions

Includes bibliographical references and index

Origins of envy and devaluation of women -- Parental mislabeling of female genitals -- Penis envy -- Internal prohibitions against female anger -- Adaptive and pathogenic aspects of sex-role stereotypes -- Girls, ladies or women? : the unconscious dynamics of language choice -- The hysterical personality -- Special issues for women in psychotherapy -- The "giving" therapist and the female patient -- Effects of the nursing mother-infant dyad on the family -- Female dependency -- Work and success inhibitions -- Depression -- A critique of the feminist psychoanalytic contribution

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